On Wednesday a contractor searching for a water line caused a gas line to burst behind Leo Hall. Southern California Gas Company employees started to dig using a hydraulic shovel attached to the back of their truck and finished the digging manually. Watching over the work at the north end of the alley at Second Street is Campus Safety and Transportation Director Michael Nunez. The accident, which closed...

Editorial cartoon by Anthony Juarez
Handicapped-friendly buildings on campus have incorporated ramps or elevators in and around the structure to allow easy access for handicapped students, but most buildings are still not up to par.
The campus is currently undergoing major renovations that aim to improve the aesthetics, functions and feel of the campus itself.
One of the more dramatic changes made...

Lauren Creiman
News Editor
Recently completed renovations to Leo Hall, which have updated its aesthetics and made it accessible to students with disabilities have also evoked feelings of loss among some faculty.
The facelift included the removal of crumbling tufa stones from the building walls.
“These tufa stones are a part of a 3,000-year-old Armenian history,” George Keeler, professor of journalism...